Elek grunted and gritted his teeth as he felt Machamp's arms squeeze his body and test his durability. He slowly opened his eyes and decided that it was time to outsmart his opponent; if he couldn't escape with physical strength, he was going to use his opponent's momentum against him. He quickly brought his right foot behind his opponent's left leg and tripped it. The Machamp widened his eyes and fell backwards, letting go of Elek so he could try to catch himself from falling. The crowd cheered as Elek shook off the numbness from the bearhug and rushed at the Machamp. We were completely surprised (King was more than us) as we watched Elek finish this match.

He quickly dropkicked the Machamp as he was getting up, causing against to lean on the ropes. Elek bounced off the other ropes, running as fast as he could to the side of his opponent. He then grabbed the top and middle rope and with amazing speed for someone so chubby and also blind, went through the ropes and did the 619 wrestling move by swinging his legs in a 180 degree motion and kicking Machamp in the face. As he fell back, the Blaziken got ready to finish the move. Once his opponent stood up, he jumped on the top rope and launched himself at his opponent. He landed on his shoulders, causing a hard knockdown on the mat. He then quickly grabbed the legs and held him in a Senton Pin. The Ref then began to count.

"1! 2! 3!"

The whole arena went ballistic as Elek got off and raised his hands in victory. We all clapped and cheered for our supervisor as Naruto turned to King with a smirk.

"So, is Elek still not as good as you think?" he asked.

"Rrgh, oh, all right," King groaned, "So, he's a lot better than I gave him credit for."

"He was so fast," Sasuke said, "Some of the moves he did when we just got in, I couldn't see because of his speed."

"It makes me wonder how fast he used to be back in his prime and rescue team," Batsu said watching him.

As we watched him slowly help Machamp up and a while passed as a lot of the Pokémon left, we saw Elek go over to a section near the right and talk with Arty, who was actually here the whole time in the stands.

"Oh, look, Thomas," Naruto said, wagging his tail, "That's Arty."

"You met Arty as well, bro?" Sasuke asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Yeah, we sorta bumped into her," I said, as Naruto and I gave each other a bit of a nervous grin.

"She's the Square's archeologist," Batsu said, "Arty is currently searching ancient territories and legends of a specific tale."

"Oh? Which one?" Naruto asked as his ears perked up.

"It's the ancient tales of humans and how they existed. You know, from the legend of Ninetales?" he told my brother.

Suddenly, a huge smirk rose right on my face. I looked away and giggled silently to myself at that. So, this Arty was trying to research the legends of creatures… like me? I knew everything about that and a part of me felt a bit bad for being unable to blow my cover and tell her everything. Secretly though, Zev and Batsu saw my smirk as I shook my head in secret glee. They raised an eyebrow as I looked back. Seeing that I may get caught, I immediately lost my smirk and looked away again. Seeing this, Sasuke cleared his throat, getting their attention.

"Well, we might as well go meet them before the exams. Come on," he signaled as he began to talk to them.

"Right! Come on, Thomas," Naruto said, taking a small yet soft bite on my arm and luring me onto going to our supervisor.

"Oww, not so rough, Naruto!" I scolded as he pulled me along.

As he led me there, the others followed Sasuke towards Elek and Arty. As we approached them, the Blaziken slowly turned to us and smiled gently as Arty smirked and jumped down beside him.

"Hello, Team Believers. I've been expecting you," he said gently, making me feel like I was really liked.

"Hello, sir," Sasuke said, nodding.

"Heh, please don't call me sir, young one," Elek said, "Please just call me Elek."

As my brother nodded, he continued, "I'm very honored to meet all of you and be your supervisor. So, let me introduce myself properly. I am Elek of the former Team Kristof. And this is my wife Arty."

Arty smiled and ruffled her feathers as she saw me and Naruto. Slowly, Naruto's giggle came out as I grabbed a bit of his fur to tell him to calm down, since we knew what exactly Arty meant by ruffling her feathers. He cleared his throat as Batsu eyed us again.

"And it's good to see you again, Naruto and Thomas," he said, "after you bumped into my wife."

"Hmm, I'm guessing when you two said you bumped into them, you literally bumped into them?" he asked.

"The word 'bumped' is not the word I'd use…" Arty went on, about to rant until Elek shot her a glare to make her calm down.

Poor Sasuke widened his eyes at us and scolded, "Guys! What did you two do?"

Both of us blushed in embarrassment as we giggled together and tried to hide behind the other. Elek chuckled slowly as he waved it off to Sasuke.

"It's all right, Sasuke," he said with a smile, "It was an accident and we let bygones by bygones. But I'm more excited in knowing all of your names," and after we all were introduced, "Wonderful. It's great to be acquainted with you."

"You're an amazing competitor in the ring, Elek," Naruto said, wagging his tail happily.

A huge red blush came across his face as he said, "Oh, you came during the match?"

"Yeah, you were pretty amazing back there. You were able to escape Machamp's Bearhug and totally reverse the whole match for your victory," I said smiling.

"It's unfortunate that only one member of the group underestimated you during your fight," Zev said, slightly grinning.

King's anger binged and looked at Zev as he snapped, "What was that, punk?!"

"Hey, it's what you said, right? You said just because he got into his Bearhug, that it was over and he was going to lose," Zev said, closing his eyes.

"Rggh… oh, shut up, y-," King was about to threaten, but then both tough guys saw Batsu eye them.

Both guys realized just by the look of his eyes that if they continued with one more word of their arguing, Batsu would wap them on the head again and HARD. Both guys took a good look at him then at each other, and with a 'hmph', both looked away, although they wished they could continue. It caused a giggle out of me, Naruto, and even Elek.

"Well, you all are an individual bunch indeed," our teacher laughed, "and that's why I really requested to be your supervisor."

"Huh?" Sasuke asked as it caught all of our attention, "But doesn't supervisors have no say in the matter? I thought they get assigned to teams, not able to ask request a certain team."

"Well, that's true, but… oh, never mind. That's a story for another day," Elek said smiling.

"Um, hello? You guys are going to be late. The exams start in five minutes!" Arty said, tapping her foot on the ground with a bit of urgency.

"Oh, right!" Elek said as he looked at Sasuke, "Before you go, let me give you some advice. The team comes first and functions as a body. Now, go out there and I'll see you again if you pass."

"All right, you guys! Let's head back to the pond!" Sasuke said as he waved for us to follow him.

As we turned to leave, I looked back at Elek and Arty. I had a feeling, although I'm not psychic and I didn't know if we would pass the exams, that we would see them in the future more. Of course, you don't need to take my word for it… actually, wait… you do, since I'm telling you my story.

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